Muramasa: The Demon Blade Walkthrough & Strategy Guide

Fruits, cooked (and stocked) food, and alcohol will recover some life and give your character spirit (for forging). Once eaten, a fullness meter appears. You cannot use food and drink items until the fullness meter is completely depleted.

Sit-Down Meal

Restaurants offer sit-down meals when you come across them. Generally, you use them to bulk up on spirit for forging (since you can eat as much as you can afford without stopping to wait for fullness).

When in the wild, you need to carry ingredients around to cook special dishes you find on your travels. Your own cooked meals give you extra benefits.

Pellets and Tablets

These are medicines in pill form and do not incur Fullness. Hence, you can keep using them until you run out. The healing from pills and tablets are about half as effect from actual food though.

Charm, Remedy, Oil

These three special medicines are to cure poison, fire, and all status effects. Once cured though, your character can incur these negative statuses again. The best thing is to use an accessory or blade with Stop All and not worry about it.

Bronze Mirror

Warps back to the last Save Shrine (not Save Point). This item can only be used in exploration mode.

Smoke Bomb

Exits battle mode (except in a boss fight). Your character must be standing still for this item to be used.

Omura & Iyo Stones

These stones restore part or all of one blade's soul power (the current one selected). If broken, a blade will be repaired if the restoration gets back all a blade's soul power.

Igarashi & Jyokenji Stones

These stones restore part or all of all three blades currently carried. Broken blades will be repaired if the restoration gets back all a blade's soul power (or Jyokenji is used).

Kumori Stone

This stone activates the basic Save Soul power. It's handy to have a few around early on and when you're trying for the Narakumi Bracelet. Once you have the Narakumi Bracelet though, you're pretty much invincible.

Ingredients

Used for cooking once you have the correct recipes. Check out your cookbooks, then buy stuff.

Recipes

This isn't Harvest Moon, but you can cook items to get extra effects. Each self-cooked meal is explained in the game; refer to the effects list if you're curious about what each recipe does.

Maps

Are useless because the game auto-maps for you as you explore. It'll ultimately save you about 300 to 500 Mon.